More on My Illegal - Aonymous - Postings
cn | 14 January, 2006 20:51Today I discovered a very intersting hub of weblogs - just as varied and interesting as our own Nxivm hub. Thus far of the blogs I've visited they are all very well written and very informed.
One of the blogs - Moore's Lore - picked up on a topic that I posted on (here and here) and that has been quite popular fodder in the blogsphere in the past week or so - the new illegality of anonymous and annoying internet media. And the author, Dana Blankenhorn, puts it as eligantly as any commentary I have yet come across:
Annoys? Excuse me? You may not know this, Arlen, but the Federalist Papers were extremely annoying. So were the anti-federalist papers. (You may not have known such existed, but they did.) All of this debate, which is at the heart of our system (and which predates the Bill of Rights, not coincidentally) was conducted anonymously. The Founders rightfully feared legal harassment from the several states for their annoying speech, and kept their names to themselves as they debated the questions publicly. One thing to emerge from all this, of course, was a promise to cofify specific rights of the people, of which Freedom of Speech would come in the First Amendment.
The article is here, Moore's Lore blog is here (the topic of this blog is new technologies) and the Corante Hub of Blogs is here.
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